Marlene Pineda was a competitive swimmer at Smith College from New Mexico who tragically passed away in a bicycle accident in 2010. She holds the pool records at Smith’s Dalton Pool for the 1,000- and 1,650-yard freestyle . Pineda graduated from Smith in 2008 with a bachelor’s in education and child study and followed that with a master’s in exercise and sports studies at the Northampton school. She relocated to Boston after receiving her master’s degree and had been the interim head coach of the Cambridge Masters Swim Club and the assistant coach of the Harvard women’s swim team.